Example sentences of "it must [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if a share does not pay dividends temporarily , it must eventually pay dividends to have any value . |
| 2 | If ruthlessly destroying a hundred years of tradition , not to mention a massive loss of capital , is ‘ pioneering ’ , than it must surely rank with the pioneering attempts of Stalin in purging Soviet libraries of all books that departed from his orthodoxy . |
| 3 | One aspect of Britain 's opting out of the social charter is that it must surely undermine the single market . |
| 4 | If it is accepted that representative or indirect democracy is at best an inadequate substitute for personal participation , and that everything possible should be done to ensure that the views and wishes of the people are represented as accurately as possible within such a system , it must surely follow that representation should be in proportion to the weight of opinion in the society itself . |
| 5 | I have no exact idea how many times he hit me , but it must surely have been six or more . |
| 6 | It must surely have been that quality , suggestive of significance , which drew so many writers and designers to vernacular styles , in both the later Victorian and the Edwardian periods . |
| 7 | ‘ If you had n't known before , it must surely have occurred to you then , that it was a measure of my besottedness that I let you get away with it . ’ |
| 8 | It must surely increase tensions and expectations and put too great an emphasis on nationalistic feelings . |
| 9 | It is no surprise to discover its presence , since it must surely belong to a very early stage in the mental development of the human species ; indeed insofar as it represents one aspect of the principle of treating like as like , it can be seen as common perceptual property for all sentient organisms . |
| 10 | How this site fits into the overall picture remains uncertain , but it must surely indicate a significant shift in the local settlement pattern on the eve of the conquest . |
| 11 | IT must surely qualify as ecclesiastical culture-shock to attend the annual assemblies of both Anglicans and Methodists on the same day in different English cities . |
| 12 | Either a study focuses upon the formally defined incumbents of leadership roles in large organizations , or it must somehow identify the real power holders behind the careful façades built by constitutions or organization charts — which seems to assume that the power of the real elite is known in advance of undertaking the empirical research ( Mills , 1956 , pp. 366 — 7 ) . |
| 13 | He scrabbled for the switch , thinking it must somehow have clicked itself off . |
| 14 | If , as is often the case , the company 's shares are all of one class , then these are necessarily ordinary shares , and if a company has a share capital it must perforce have at least one ordinary share whether or not it also has preference shares . |
| 15 | For Mercury to have an iron core which is wholly or substantially molten today it must either possess significant quantities of U , Th and K in the core and deep mantle , or tidal heating by the Sun must be particularly powerful , or the solar wind must be efficient at inducing electric currents in the core . |
| 16 | IF AN ANIMAL is to survive it must either confront predators or avoid them . |
| 17 | For that reason alone , the Communist party saw that it must either stop Mosley now or else perhaps lose all chance of a populist vote in its own support . |
| 18 | Well it must either go in the kitchen or in the cupboard somewhere , but you know ? |
| 19 | It follows that , if a full course is to be mounted it must either attract support from all of the three faculties or must bring together an unusually diverse group of colleagues . |
| 20 | The landlord should be responsible for ensuring that the works are carried out in accordance with the building documents and if there are any variations , it must either have them corrected or obtain the tenant 's consent to their remaining . |
| 21 | Where either the High Court or a county court is satisfied that proceedings before it are required to be in the other court whether by reason of the 1991 Order or any other provisions made under s 1 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 , or by reason of any other enactment , then it must either transfer the proceedings to the other court or strike them out ( CCA 1984 , ss 40 and 42 ) . |
| 22 | The level of the basic retirement pension is such that those who rely on it must either live a frugal existence ( Holman , 1986 ) , take part time jobs for as long as possible to make ends meet or claim income support . |
| 23 | This canon did not appear by chance ; it must already have been worked out when Borodin began the movement 110 bars previously . |
| 24 | to Close an SPR , it must already have been accepted using option 3.4.0 or 3.8.0 and may not have been closed already via another SSR |
| 25 | to Close an SPR , it must already have been accepted using option 3.4.0 or 3.8.0 and may not have been closed already via another SSR |
| 26 | To date there is little evidence of this happening within the NHS but it must soon occupy our attention as a matter of urgency . |
| 27 | Churchill in the cabinet in August 1954 expressed the fear that the United States , conscious that it must soon lose its nuclear lead over the USSR , might be tempted in the interval to try to snatch what advantages it could in the Cold War . |
| 28 | It must clearly relate to the areas of study and competences for which credit/entry is being sought . |
| 29 | Jos had said there was a window , but it must since have been curtained . |
| 30 | He termed this new pattern of systematized organization ‘ bureaucracy ’ , and argued that it must progressively supplant all rival systems of administration in a modern society because of its technical superiority in tackling problems and marshalling large-scale activity in a purposeful way . |